Word: concord
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road to Black/Jewish concord requires boldness and decency...
...long ago, means testing was a notion embraced mostly by small political journals and policy wonks swimming in think tanks. But respectability came as the bipartisan cut-the-deficit Concord Coalition and investment banker Pete Peterson pushed schemes that would trim federal subsidies in gradual steps for families earning above about $40,000 a year. The new mood is reflected by Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who declared recently, "Means testing in selected areas is an idea whose time has come...
Teen Lust and Stopped Clocks. A fastpaced comedy about suburban high school drug culture and the 1986 Challenger explosion. Set in Concord, NH, the hometown of schoolteacher/astronaut Christa McAuliffe, the play focuses on the awkwardly traumatic lives of Kurt, a dyslectic pot dealer; Dennis, a lovelorn ice cream scooper; and Wanda, a leukemia-stricken cheerleader. Loeb EX, 7:30 p.m. Free. 19 November Friday...
...true that our budget deficit deserves attention. But Tsongas, Warren Rudman and their Concord Coalition use rhetoric that suggests that it is wrong by its very nature. In fact, borrowing money in order to spend it is morally neutral. Our judgment of such borrowing should depend on what it is used for; there can be good and bad deficits. But deficit spending in and of itself can be useful and should not be shamed out of the political debate...
Huberty's argument--which did not win over the court--might, at first, seem like an isolated case of nuttiness. But all over the country, in places like Concord, N.H., Kansas City, Mo., and Santa Fe, N.M., anti-MSG activists are making similar claims...